A TRIO of page-turning local authors are helping veterans of war with the launch of their new books.

Words for the Wounded aims to help all wounded veterans, including sufferers of PTSD, through writing therapy.

Iona Carroll, who is the author of the hugely successful Homecoming, along with Pamela Gordon Hoad and Oliver Eade will be holding a joint book launch next month to benefit the charity.

Iona's latest offering, Other People's Lives, is a captivating collection of short stories capturing the surprising and entertaining lives of everyday people.

Homecoming, which highlights the difficulties facing the family of a young Australian returning from Vietnam with devastating physical and psychological injuries, will also be available on the launch evening.

In the fifth novel of the Harry Somers series, The Prophet’s Grief, Pamela Gordon Hoad traces the exploits of the eponymous 15th century doctor and investigator.

Set during a period of turbulence and popular discontent, The Prophet's Grief tells how Somers tries to mitigate his wife's mental illness in a time when little was known of the brain's workings.

In Number Twenty-Four retired Borders General Hospital doctor Oliver Eade exquisitely tells the tale of young love and adventure in a canine controlled world.

Eades fascinating novels transports readers and the four teenage protagonists, via an old house in Hawick, to a land where humans are the barking pets of talking dogs.

The joint launch, which is open to all, will be held in the Ormiston Lounge of Melrose Corn Exchange on Thursday, November 7 between 7pm and 9pm.

As well as readings and a chance to chat with the authors there will be free drinks and nibbles.

Donations for the charity, however small, will be welcome.

Earlier books by all three authors will also be on sale to aid Words for the Wounded.